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published as 'In pursuit of power: Land tenancy contracts and local political business cycles in Indonesia' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 227, 106764

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14215

Immigration and Crime: The Role of Self-Selection and Institutions

Fabio Mariani, Marion Mercier

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 185, 538-564

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14186

Gender Gaps in Latin American Labor Markets: Implications from an Estimated Search Model

Mauricio Tejada, Claudia Piras, Luca Flabbi, Monserrat Bustelo

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 142, 2021, 111-178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14093

Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?

John T. Giles, Xin Meng, Sen Xue, Guochang Zhao

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021,150,102645.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14060

Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations

Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Costas Meghir, Gabriel Ulyssea

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13736

Borderline Disorder: (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa

Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ömer Özak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13677

Informational Shocks and Street-Food Safety: A Field Study in Urban India

Gianmarco Daniele, Sulagna Mookerjee, Denni Tommasi

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (3), 563-579

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13407

Improving Tax Compliance without Increasing Revenue: Evidence from Population-Wide Randomized Controlled Trials in Papua New Guinea

Christopher Hoy, Luke McKenzie, Mathias Sinning

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024, 72 (2), 691–723

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12982

Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits

Andres Dean, Sebastian Fleitas, Mariana Zerpa

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3), 762–777.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12926

Enterprising Women in Southern Africa: When Does Land Ownership Matter?

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye, Fiona Tregenna

published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2020, 41 (1), 37 - 51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12831

Who Demands Labour (De)Regulation in the Developing World? Insider–Outsider Theory Revisited

Lucas Ronconi, Ravi Kanbur, Santiago López-Cariboni

published in: International Labour Review, 2023, 162 (2), 223-243

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12385

Nonlinearity between the Shadow Economy and Level of Development

Dong Frank Wu, Friedrich Schneider

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12256

Youth Labour Markets in Developing and Developed Countries: The Role of the Sectoral Composition of Production

Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12197

Monetary Policy, Growth and Employment in Developing Areas: A Review of the Literature

Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12091

Labor Market Search, Informality, and On-The-Job Human Capital Accumulation

Matteo Bobba, Luca Flabbi, Santiago Levy Algazi, Mauricio Tejada

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2021, 223 (2), 433-453

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11903

Labor Market and Institutional Drivers of Youth Irregular Migration: Evidence from the MENA Region

Ghassan Dibeh, Ali Fakih, Walid Marrouch

published in: Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 61(2), 225-251

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11750

Pathways to Formalization: Going beyond the Formality Dichotomy

Juan Jose Diaz, Juan Chacaltana, Jamele Rigolini, Claudia Ruiz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11536

Information Frictions and Learning Dynamics: Evidence from Tax Avoidance in Ecuador

Albrecht Bohne, Jan Sebastian Nimczik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11529

Family Ceremonies as a Constraint on Informal Sector Investment: The Case of Sénégal

John Bennett, Stephanie Levy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11376

The Puzzles and Contradictions of the Indian Labour Market: What Will the Future of Work Look Like?

Sher Verick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11247

Nature of the Relationship between Minimum Wage and the Shadow Economy Size: An Empirical Analysis for the Case of Romania

Adriana Anamaria Davidescu, Friedrich Schneider

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11245

Political Change and Informality: Evidence from the Arab Spring

Ahmed Elsayed, Jackline Wahba

published as 'Political Change and Informality' in: Economics of Transition, 2019, 27 (1), 31 - 66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11188

Micro-Foundations of Fragility: Concepts, Measurement and Application

Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück, Neil T.N. Ferguson, Sindu W. Kebede

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2022, 26, 639 - 660

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11170

Labor Market Search, Informality and Schooling Investments

Matteo Bobba, Luca Flabbi, Santiago Levy Algazi

published in: International Economic Review, 2022, 63 (1), 211-226.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11014

Informality, Public Employment and Employment Protection in Developing Countries

Shaimaa Yassin, François Langot

publisehd in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (1), 326-348

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10966

The Impact of the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment on Employment Informality in Algeria

Ali Souag, Ragui Assaad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10965

Returns to Islamic Microfinance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Pakistan

Maazullah, Arjun S. Bedi

published as 'Returns to Interest-free Microcredit: Evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Pakistan' in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2022, 14 (2), 93 - 107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10704

Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Skills in Low-Income Countries

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Balázs Égert

published in: Economic Modelling, 2017, 67, 381 - 391

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10686

War, Migration and the Origins of the Thai Sex Industry

Abel Brodeur, Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Yanos Zylberberg

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (5), 1540-1576

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10615

Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya

David McKenzie, Olga Susana Puerto

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021 13 (2), 297-332

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10385

Inter-ethnic Fertility Spillovers and the Role of Forward-looking Behavior: Evidence from Peninsular Malaysia

Emily A. Beam, Slesh Shrestha

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10359

Labor Outcomes during the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood: The Role of Personality, Cognition, and Shocks in Madagascar

David E. Sahn, Kira M. Villa

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10324

Entrepreneurship in the Shadows: Wealth Constraints and Government Policy

Semih Tumen

published in: Economics of Transition, 2017, 25(2), 239-270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10255

Occupational Choice in Early Industrializing Societies: Experimental Evidence on the Income and Health Effects of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work

Christopher J. Blattman, Stefan Dercon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10197

The Anatomy of Behavioral Responses to Social Assistance When Informal Employment Is High

Marcelo Bergolo, Guillermo Cruces

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10196

Remittances and Informal Work

Artjoms Ivlevs

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1172-1190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10067

On the Boundaries of the Shadow Economy: An Empirical Investigation

Eran Manes, Friedrich Schneider, Anat Tchetchik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9972

Job Creation in a Multi-Sector Labor Market Model for Developing Economies

Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Gary S. Fields, Ravi Kanbur

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (1), 119 - 144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9970

Informal versus Formal: A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Madagascar

Christophe Jalil Nordman, Faly Rakotomanana, François Roubaud

published in: World Development, 2016, 86, 1–17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9951

Workforce Composition, Productivity, and Labor Regulations in a Compensating Differentials Theory of Informality

Daniel Haanwinckel, Rodrigo R. Soares

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88 (6), 2970-3010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9866

The Value of Social Security: Are Formal Jobs Better?

Lucia Madrigal, Carmen Pagés, Agustina Suaya

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9820

Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy: Methods, Problems and Open Questions

Friedrich Schneider, Andreas Buehn

published as 'Shadow Economy: Estimation Methods, Problems, Results and Open questions' in: Open Economics, 2018, 1, 1-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9723

Earnings Premiums and Penalties for Self-Employment and Informal Employees around the World

T. H. Gindling, Nadwa Mossaad, David Newhouse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9545

Illegal Immigration and the Shadow Economy

Carmen Camacho, Fabio Mariani, Luca Pensieroso

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24, 1050-1080

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9491

New Evidence on Linear Regression and Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Tymon Sloczynski

superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 11866

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9359

Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty in Egypt?

Aysit Tansel, Halil Ibrahim Keskin, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir

revised version published as 'Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty ine from Egypt: EvidencQuantile Regression on Panel Data' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 58 (6), 2949-2979.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9136

Experimental Evidence on the Long-Term Impacts of a Youth Training Program

Pablo Ibarrarán, Jochen Kluve, Laura Ripani, David Rosas Shady

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (1), 85-222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8887

Court-ship, Kinship and Business: A Study on the Interaction between the Formal and the Informal Institutions and Its Effect on Entrepreneurship

Tanika Chakraborty, Anirban Mukherjee, Sarani Saha

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2015, 4, 7 (2015)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8773

Determinants of Transitions across Formal / Informal Sectors in Egypt

Aysit Tansel, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir

revised version published as 'Transitions across Labor Market States Including Formal/Informal Division in Egypt' in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 23 (4), 1674-1695.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8377

Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market

Elif Öznur Acar, Aysit Tansel

published in: Sosyoekonomi, 2016, 24 (28), 147-174.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8278

The Shadow Economy and Shadow Labor Force: A Survey of Recent Developments

Friedrich Schneider

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8273

By Choice and by Necessity: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment in the Developing World

David N. Margolis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8253

The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An Evaluation of the Impact of the Campaña Nacional de Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica

T. H. Gindling, Nadwa Mossaad, Juan Diego Trejos

slightly revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(3), 666-707

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8213

The Effects of Access to Health Insurance for Informally Employed Individuals in Peru

Noelia Bernal, Miguel A. Carpio, Tobias J. Klein

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 154, 122-136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8211

Pension Design with a Large Informal Labor Market: Evidence from Chile

Clement Joubert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8198

Work and Tax Evasion Incentive Effects of Social Insurance Programs: Evidence from an Employment-Based Benefit Extension

Marcelo Bergolo, Guillermo Cruces

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 211-228

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8094

Does Corruption Promote Emigration? An Empirical Examination

Arusha Cooray, Friedrich Schneider

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (1), 293 - 310

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8067

Female Brain Drains and Women's Rights Gaps: A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows

Maryam Naghsh Nejad, Andrew T. Young

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7883

Informality and Long-Run Growth

Frédéric Docquier, Tobias Müller, Joaquín Naval

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119(4), 1040-1085

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7864

Institutionalized Inequality and Brain Drain: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Women's Rights on the Gender Gap in High-Skilled Migration

Maryam Naghsh Nejad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7843

Immigration and the Informal Labor Market

Mariano Bosch, Lídia Farré

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7795

Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon

Nora Stel, Wim Naudé

published as 'Public–Private Entanglement’: Entrepreneurship in Lebanon’s Hybrid Political Order' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52 (2), 254–268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7757

The Decision to Become an Entrepreneur and the Firm Size Distribution: A Unifying Framework for Policy Analysis

Markus Poschke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7717

Is there a Trade-off between Employment and Productivity?

Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar

published as 'Macroeconomic and Sectoral Issues in Youth Employment Policy' in: O'Higgins, N., Ebell, M.; Junankar, P.N. (eds.), Rising to the Youth Employment Policy, Geneva, 2017, Ch.2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7685

Engaging in Corruption: The Influence of Cultural Values and Contagion Effects at the Micro Level

Wang-Sheng Lee, Cahit Guven

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2013, 39, 287-300

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7636

Corruption, Networking and Foreign Ownership: Recent Evidence from CEE Countries

Sarmistha Pal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7629

Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

Catia Batista, Dan Silverman, Dean Yang

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 118, 2-21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7591